He was in Vogue magazine all the time.

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We commonly associate extreme secrecy around a product design with Apple, but it now looks to be in vogue with all the major technology companies: just days after Samsung revealed the Galaxy S III's secret sauce, Microsoft has explained to TechRadar that it developed its surprise new Surface tablets under a similarly tight watch.

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Inflation will be back in vogue and stocks will again be all the rage.

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Flight-to-safety buying of U.S. Treasuries, German bunds, gold and the U.S. dollar all quickly came back into vogue late Monday.

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Despite all this unpleasantness Bulletin Board stocks are in vogue, riding on the coattails of legitimate Nasdaq companies like Intel.

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Vogue editor Anna Wintour made a stop at the All England Club before the Paris haute couture collections to catch a Federer match.

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All these pose challenges to the fatuous techno-optimism that is currently, maybe only briefly, in vogue.

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